CVE-2016-2165

MediumCVSS 6.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

The Loggregator Traffic Controller endpoints in cf-release v231 and lower, Pivotal Elastic Runtime versions prior to 1.5.19 AND 1.6.x versions prior to 1.6.20 are not cleansing request URL paths when they are invalid and are returning them in the 404 response. This could allow malicious scripts to be written directly into the 404 response.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 6.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-20

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
Pivotal	Cloud Foundry	cf-release v231 and lower; Elastic Runtime versions prior to 1.5.19 AND 1.6.x versions prior to 1.6.20

References

https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2016-2165Vendor Advisory
https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2016-2165Vendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: May 25, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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